In this article, I teach you computer typing lessons. Today we learn about the Internet and Email.
Nowadays the Internet is so popular for searching for data that the user wants. The Internet is so useful nowadays. You can get all types of information within seconds with the internet.
In this article, I will share you knowledge about what is the internet, how to use it and give you information about electronic mails.
What is Internet?
The Internet is basically a network of networks.
Nowadays people make their websites to share their knowledge with users. Many organizations, institutes, companies run their websites to provide their service to users. The Internet is available 24*7 to users.
The Internet is used in 1950 for the first time. After that, the Internet gained popularity with time. Now there are millions of users who use the internet in one day.
Now the Internet is used in every field such as schools and colleges, to build a successful business, for making online shopping, Peoples can book airlines, bus, train reservations, for making banking transactions, for contacting people, etc.
Basically, there are two computers is working on the Internet. The main computer is called a server. All the data of websites are stored on the server computer. It is running on the Network operating system. It handles all the requests received from users.
The computer used by the user to search for information is called the Client computer. When the user searches some data, the request is sent to the server via the internet and then the server computer finds such data and the request is placed with the server.
The server then sends data to the client's computer. This process is completed within seconds, and it also depends upon your speed of internet connection.
There is a large network of fiber optics cables that are spread over the globe to send or receives such data requests.
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How to connect the Internet to the Computer?
A modem is a device that is used to connect the internet to the computer. There are lots of modem devices are available in the market.
You can connect the internet to the computer with the help of a sim card. Your Mobile Smartphone is itself modem which is used to connect the Internet to the computer.
You can also purchase a modem to connect internet, there is also a slot to insert a SIM card.
What is a Web Page?
When we search for a website, the page contains data or information. This page is called a web page. The language used to build a web page is HTML(Hypertext markup language).
The sending and receiving of data are carried out by a protocol called HTTP(Hypertext transfer protocol).
There is a term called URL. As like the home address, there is an address of a website called a URL.
The software used to load web pages is called a web browser. There are so many browsers available in the market such as google chrome, internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, etc. You can use any web browser to surf the internet.
What is Electronic Mail?
Email is a service that allows us to send and receive electronic letters via the internet. You just need to create an email ID and then you are able to send emails to another person. Here both people need email IDs to send and receive emails.
Popular email services are Gmail, Yahoo mail, etc...
I hope You will get basic information about the Internet and Email.
GCC TBC Theory-
- Fundamentals of Computer
- Operating system
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Internet and Email
